County to hire OPS Strategies to rewrite Rural PRD rules

Teton County commissioners on Monday are set to consider a sole-source deal with OPS Strategies, capped at $7,500, to draft amendments to the Land Development Regulations (LDRs) that would remove the Rural Planned Residential Development (PRD) and Complete Neighborhood PRD tools, and limit maximum floor area on smaller Rural-1 and Rural-2 parcels by applying standards more typical of smaller-lot zones. Planning staff frame the work as a clean-up item coming out of the county’s long-range planning work plan, and as a response to very small rural parcels created through family or exempt subdivisions. R Board Meeting Agenda

If approved, the consultant would draft the code text and staff reports for two public hearings (one Planning Commission and one Board of County Commissioners hearing), plus filing documents after adoption. For housing folks, the thing to watch is whether “streamlining” is paired with any actual guardrails on rural buildout, because removing bonus tools and tightening floor area can cut speculative upside on small rural lots without creating a single new deed-restricted home. BCC Staff Report Packet